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    "guide": {
        "slug": "how-to-sing-harmony",
        "title": "How to sing harmony",
        "description": "Harmony is two or more notes sung together that fit. Here's how to hear your part, hold it, and sing it with others, one step at a time.",
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            {
                "type": "paragraph",
                "level": null,
                "text": "Harmony is two or more notes sung at once that sound right together. The tune is the part everyone knows; a harmony part sits above or below it and moves with it. Singing harmony is a skill like any other: it comes from hearing the part first, then holding it while something else plays.",
                "items": null
            },
            {
                "type": "heading",
                "level": 2,
                "text": "1. Hear your part alone",
                "items": null
            },
            {
                "type": "paragraph",
                "level": null,
                "text": "Before you sing, listen to your part on its own until you could hum it. Most people find a harmony part hard only because they haven't heard it enough times by itself.",
                "items": null
            },
            {
                "type": "heading",
                "level": 2,
                "text": "2. Sing it with only your part playing",
                "items": null
            },
            {
                "type": "paragraph",
                "level": null,
                "text": "Sing along with your part, quietly at first. You're learning the shape: where it goes up, where it holds, where it moves with the tune and where it doesn't.",
                "items": null
            },
            {
                "type": "heading",
                "level": 2,
                "text": "3. Add the tune, softly",
                "items": null
            },
            {
                "type": "paragraph",
                "level": null,
                "text": "Now play the tune with your part, the tune quieter. This is the moment the tune pulls at you; it's normal. If you drift onto it, stop, listen to your part again, and come back in.",
                "items": null
            },
            {
                "type": "heading",
                "level": 2,
                "text": "4. Turn your part down",
                "items": null
            },
            {
                "type": "paragraph",
                "level": null,
                "text": "As it settles, make your part quieter and the others louder, until you're holding it with the tune alone. That's harmony.",
                "items": null
            },
            {
                "type": "heading",
                "level": 2,
                "text": "5. Sing every part yourself",
                "items": null
            },
            {
                "type": "paragraph",
                "level": null,
                "text": "Record your part, then learn the next one and sing it over your own recording. When every part is you, the whole song is you.",
                "items": null
            },
            {
                "type": "list",
                "level": null,
                "text": null,
                "items": [
                    "Start with songs that move slowly, and parts that stay close to the tune.",
                    "Headphones help: you'll hear yourself and the others clearly.",
                    "Little and often beats one long session."
                ]
            },
            {
                "type": "paragraph",
                "level": null,
                "text": "Try it with a round or a simple two-part song first.",
                "items": null
            }
        ],
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        "song": {
            "slug": "michael-row",
            "title": "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore",
            "description": "The spiritual, for 2 to 4 singers: a short, easy tune with a \"Hallelujah!\" to answer. The soprano sings the melody, the alto moves beneath it, the bass holds the roots on \"oo\", and the tenor fills the chord.",
            "difficulty": "beginner",
            "genre": [
                "spiritual",
                "folk"
            ],
            "parts": [
                {
                    "key": "soprano",
                    "name": "Soprano",
                    "low": "D4",
                    "high": "B4"
                },
                {
                    "key": "alto",
                    "name": "Alto",
                    "low": "A3",
                    "high": "G4"
                },
                {
                    "key": "tenor",
                    "name": "Tenor",
                    "low": "F#3",
                    "high": "D4"
                },
                {
                    "key": "bass",
                    "name": "Bass",
                    "low": "G2",
                    "high": "D3"
                }
            ],
            "previewUrl": null,
            "previewType": "audio/mp4",
            "words": [
                "Michael, row the boat ashore, Hallelujah!",
                "Michael, row the boat ashore, Hallelujah!"
            ],
            "credits": [
                "Words: traditional spiritual (Slave Songs of the United States, 1867)",
                "Tune: traditional spiritual (1867)"
            ],
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            "freeThisMonth": false,
            "pageUrl": "https://beta.stackapella.com/songs/michael-row",
            "startUrl": "/?song=michael-row&ref=song-page"
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    }
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